"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait school sampler I would guess 1950s-1960s

I would guess 1950s-1960s

with a flush wooden stem on one end and just right protrusion on the other

but such is life

I just thought--think--it's beautiful

So reads the text on the back of this handheld amusement

"This is to Remember Me When I am Ded", Peter's 19th C. Ink and Watercolor Double Portrait school sampler I would guess 1950s-1960sThis is to remember me The grass is green The rose is red This is left When I am ded. Signed what looks like Peter S. Burgard; I have turned up a Peter Gurgard born in 1822 in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, married in 1850 in Erie, NY, which seems about right to me, period wise and in terms of the costumes here but I don't know for certain. There were a few scraps of notes included with it (see photos) noting it was purchased along with a 1829 fraktur